Word: take-off
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...trick formations on the take-off which have proved so successful in the games this year worked poorly, but this failure was probably due to the familiarity of the second team with the formations. On free tries Griffiths made only one out of a possible seven baskets for the University team, and Miles missed four out of five for the second team...
...light jingles; an accurate and appropriate editorial with just a touch of joviality; special notices and printed notes of average entertaining power; some rules for the deportment of Freshmen at beer nights,--excellent if seriously meant; a timely satire upon our besetting sin of megalomania; and a truly amusing "take-off" of Mr. Walter Camp's "last words" on football...
...good take-off on the Advocate and a few clever jokes and poems make the current number of the Lampoon fairly readable. Of the illustrations the Chart for Navigating the Yard in wet weather is one of the cleverest drawings that has appeared in the paper this year. The ideas of some of the other illustrations are also clever, but in most cases the execution is very rough and unfinished. A well-executed and artistic drawing has not appeared in the last few numbers of the Lampoon...
...with a lame foot caused by a cut from a shoe spike, and it is impossible to say now how soon the cut will heal thoroughly. Rotch and Glidden surpass the other high jumpers, though no great heights have been cleared, on account of the poor condition of the take...
Lack of originality does not prevent the last Lampoon from being quite as entertaining as usual. The front page is an excellent take-off of the "Bugville" pictures that have recently crawled into so many periodicals. The drawing on the first page, too, with its faint suggestion of Peter Newell, deserves some mention...